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...other hand, they all pursue a very basic irony: Even in the worst of times, ordinary human beings solipsistically pursue their little lives. They get married, have children, pursue their paltry careers, no matter who is running things in the larger world. In investigating the intersection where mini-histories collide with mega-history, Menzel provides a valuable humanistic service. People like Jan Dítĕ are always the victims of the politicians and ideologues who would engineer the human soul. And they never quite understand why they are carelessly chosen for exile, prison or death. There's something eerie...
...just be political will. Any government official - or doctor, for that matter - who tries to improve population health has basically just two options. One is to push the frontiers constantly, improving basic health knowledge and medical technology. The other is to work with existing knowledge and technology, but to concentrate on allocating it efficiently. Almost all the WHO's recommendations fall into the latter category, and the commissioners are convinced that focusing on the social determinants of health will save both lives and cash in the long run. "We're wasting a lot of the money that we invest...
...attend to women in labor who need urgent transport to a delivery room, individuals too weakened by cholera to get to a clinic, children with malaria and many others. They do this with one year of on-the-job training that builds on at least some secondary education. That basic training is enough to save lives in vast numbers...
...nominee has tried it since John F. Kennedy's acceptance speech in 1960. "We want to open up this convention to make sure that everybody who wants to come can join in the party and join in the effort," he said. To him, a huge crowd will illustrate a basic premise of his campaign: "Change in America doesn't start from the top - the top down. It starts from the bottom...
...basic question is whether Clinton is willing to pass the Democratic torch, to concede that while he might have been the party's bridge to the 21st century, Obama is the 21st century, the new believer in a place called Hope. Clinton likes to play the elder statesman, but he's not usually inclined to see himself as yesterday's news, and he clearly resents Obama as a too-cool-for-school upstart who paid insufficient homage to his legacy while seizing a nomination that was rightfully his wife's. He has been the leader of the Democratic Party...